In the 19 months since the 2008 election, our nation's political
landscape has taken quite the dramatic turn. The Democrats have
succumbed to a Wall Street-like plunge in popularity. And in a
bizarro-world scenario, health care has morphed Obama into a grossly
polarizing figure, while Sarah Palin has birthed a "Yes We Can"-style
underdog attack of her own -- successfully stirring the pot during her
recent Tea Party appearance in our very own Common

Standing before a sea of green-leaning Cambridge liberals (who would
later scoff heartily at the suggestion that the average person watches roughly 5 hours of TV per day),
Al Gore announced: "My own personal journey on the issue of the climate
crisis began here in Cambridge 42 years ago, when I walked into the
classroom of Roger Revelle

Harvard Yard is probably one of the last places on earth where you'd
expect to stumble upon the corpses of women who'd been unjustly hung
during public executions. That is, unless you happen to inhabit the
world created by Booker Prize-winning Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood in her 1985 dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, which is eerily set in a futuristic replica of Cambridge controlled by a totalitarian theocracy.